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Everything You Think You Know About English is a LIE!

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Listen to me if you want to live!

The Flow of English is finally completed, and it is slated to be the best English pronunciation program this planet has ever seen.

Like all my other Flow Series Courses, The Flow of English uses song-training to develop the learner’s ability to perceive and produce the real sounds of English.

I put emphasis on the word real because there is an enormous difference between what we think English sounds like and what it really sounds like.

This is important, because we learn and teach languages based on what we think they sound like. In other words, English teachers and learners are teaching and learning the wrong stuff! 

Let’s take a closer look…

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The 6 Steps to Training Your Foreign Language Flow with Your Favorite Music

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For those of you new to The Mimic Method, “Flow-Training” is the technique I use to develop sound mastery in a foreign language.  By “Sound Mastery,” I’m referring to the ability to:

  • Accurately perceive the nuances of the target language’s sounds, and
  • Effortless reproduce those exact same sounds (i.e. speak with good pronunciation).  

Hearing and mimicking the sounds of a foreign language will ALWAYS be extremely challenging at first, since the act of speech requires a finely tuned ear and well-trained motor coordination.  

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Introducing “The Flow Breakdown” Series

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I’m happy to announce the launch of a new Youtube series I created – “The Flow Breakdown.”  In this series, I will release a weekly video examining the phonetics, musicality, culture and meaning of a song of mine (or your) choosing.

Most of the songs will probably be from one of the four second languages I speak (Spanish, French, Portuguese or Mandarin), but I will also try to collaborate with others to do videos for songs that I personally do not speak.  I’ll also do some English flow breakdowns too for you non-native speakers.

In these videos, I break down:

  • The syllables and rhythm of the lyrics (i.e. “the Flow)
  • The Cultural background of the song.
  • The significance of the lyrics
  • Some musical/instrumental element of the song

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Two Infamous Polyglots Challenge YOU to Self-Record your Language-Learning

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Forget about The Mimic Method approach and all the other language philosophies out there for a moment and take some time to consider this simple fact: You learn skills ONLY after many hours of practice. 
People are always amazed at how polyglots like Moses McCormick and I are able to achieve fluency in a foreign language in a matter of months when they themselves have spent years studying the language and still struggle to hold a basic conversation.

The flaw in their thinking lies in their perception of “time”.  You may have taken a language class for 2 years, but in a 1 hour class you’ll be lucky to get your lips moving for more than 10 total minutes; the rest of the time is typically spent listening to the teacher, other students, or writing some stupid stuff.

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Stop trying to Suffocate Language with “Rules”; Just Go with The Flow!

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Instead of treating language as the fluid and beautiful thing that it is, certain people want to confine language to a strict set of spelling and grammar rules.  Then to get everyone to conform to their rules, they create a stigma around people who don’t spell or conjugate the way they do, labeling them as “uneducated” or even “unintelligent.”

This is why people get super embarrassed whenever they realize that they accidentally wrote “there” instead of “they’re,” or answered the phone “this is her” instead of “this is she.”

Seriously, who cares?  
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